bobofettfett

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by bobofettfett 12y ago
1. Good, all DB data needs to be encrypted 2. That said, the largest security risk is applications (backends) that enable mass access to customer data and allow mass leaks of customer data.
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by bobofettfett 12y ago
@gaius: You love it in a way that you do projects with them now? That you would choose it over something "better" (Z80,68k assembler?)? Or do you love the nostalgia, the feeling you had when you were programming your first compute
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by bobofettfett 12y ago
You will lose that feeling after 30 years. I have no special place for ZX Spectrum Basic anymore.
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by bobofettfett 12y ago
From my experience renting more servers with 50% growth is a challenge. A lot of things go wrong when installing a lot of servers each month. Also from my experience, with 10 instances the money you save with custom servers is negligible an
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by bobofettfett 12y ago
My 5cent: If you have lots and lots of money and a high margin business, do yourself a favor and go with Amazon (much less hassle with contract management and low level challenges). If you need to scale month to month and are growing 50% pe
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by bobofettfett 12y ago
And it has nothing to do with Periscope.
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by bobofettfett 12y ago
Every one in tech thought 10years ago there are backdoors everywhere - well there were backdoors everywhere 20 years ago. And everyone thought government agencies use phones for tracking. The public opinion might have been different, but in
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by bobofettfett 12y ago
Very long answer. I have no clue who you are. So my impression is just from your words. I would not hire you. It seems you had problems with several managers, then call a former employer a 'total moron' on a discussion board and a
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by bobofettfett 12y ago
Not sure why you started at a company where getting fired is "no great loss" to you. Why did you start there in the first place? How was your due diligence? When hiring I'm always amazed how little candidates ask real questio
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by bobofettfett 12y ago
Could not find in the post why he was fired. Form my experience, if not being part of a 10% cut 80% of the fired people deserved it and should think hard why. Also from my experience, most people getting fired for legit reasons have not eno
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by bobofettfett 12y ago
Half-Life 3?
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by bobofettfett 12y ago
Yes, couldn't read find that in the article beside "monolitic baeh"
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by bobofettfett 12y ago
As they say: "Your new boy/girlfriend is better because you are better."
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by bobofettfett 12y ago
When Ruby can't solve your business problems -> wrong choice. If it can solve your business problems -> wrong choice to move to Go.
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by bobofettfett 12y ago
Ruby is the new Java everyone is bashing. Go is the new Ruby everyone is hyping. If you replace every mention of Ruby with Java, and every mention of Go with Ruby in the comments on HN, then you've invented a time machine to go back 10
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by bobofettfett 12y ago
Companies that invest in rewriting everything from Ruby into Go instead of working on the business model seem to have a lot of money and a secure future and no competition.
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by bobofettfett 12y ago
If you move from Ruby to Go and this works better for you, then choosing Ruby in the first place might - if it was not about a prototype or getting VC money or only found Ruby developers - be a failure on your part.
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by bobofettfett 12y ago
Trick is: Stay long enough in the game, earn enough money to stay afloat, then find the gold at the end of the rainbow. Expose yourself to luck.
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by bobofettfett 12y ago
Yes, but this assumes I could afford Miele appliances in the first place.
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by bobofettfett 12y ago
And we know automatic DCMA bots work on size and name alone.
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by bobofettfett 12y ago
Or maybe not. Your speculation is as good as mine. Or the op. Or everyone else. The point was Dropbox is accessing files outside the folder, something I would not want or expect. "It is incredibly hard for me to believe that Dropbox ha
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by bobofettfett 12y ago
What if they upload file hashes? What if they upload name+type+size to fingerprint files? They don't need to upload file contents for fingerprinting your drive content.
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by bobofettfett 12y ago
This will make everything more expensive. E.g. take Bosch/Siemens and Miele. Miele stuff really lasts forever but costs 2x that of Bosch/Siemens household stuff. If I could afford it, I'd buy Miele.
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by bobofettfett 12y ago
Why is data lost all the time? Because lists of data exist. Why do they exist? Because everyone is using Excel.
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by bobofettfett 12y ago
Why does sec get breached? Marketing wants easy access to all data, that's it. Big Data / deep learning wants easy access, lots of data is in transit. Security is not convenient for operations, therefor companies have sec on paper
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by bobofettfett 12y ago
Totally wrong assessment. Everyone has security guys. Why does sec get breached? Marketing wants easy access to all data, deep learning wants easy access, lots of data is in transit. Security is not convenient for operations, therefor compa